Spatial ability involves being aware of the location and dimensions of objects and their relationships to one another. It is core to everyday living (e.g., giving directions, or packing a suitcase). Research from my group and others has shown that it is also a strong predictor of a person’s mathematics and science abilities – those […]
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“We do not learn from experience… we learn from reflecting on experience.” – John Dewey Setting the contextIt was a beautiful sunny morning on 6 October 2016, London. A buzz of excitement was in the air as twenty-four eminent speakers from ten different countries and approximately ninety delegates descended on the British Medical House at […]
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The BPS Developmental Section met for its annual conference on 14th September, in the Hilton Hotel, Belfast. Bringing together experienced and early-career researchers from across the UK, the conference showcased recent thinking and research in a broad range of areas of developmental psychology. Five members of the CogDev Lab attended, including Emily Farran, who presented […]
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To accompany the Neurodevelopmental Disorders Annual Seminar, Emily Farran and the CoGDeV lab arranged a workshop on Overcoming and Considering Difficulties of Research with Neurodevelopmental Disorders. After a hectic day of engaging with lots of different research talks at the conference on the previous day, a smaller group of 60 delegates had the chance to get […]
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The seminar series started in 2012-2013 as a collaboration between Jo Van Herwegen, Emily Farran and Deborah Riby and provided a platform for early career as well as established researchers to discuss the application of recently developed tools and innovative research methods to the study of neurodevelopmental disorders. This year, the event took place at […]
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The Royal Society, 26th May 2016 This event was a collaborative venture between the British Psychological Society, Experimental Psychology Society, and the Association of Heads of Psychology Departments. It was designed to promote discussion on the subject of replication and reproducibility in psychology in response to Nosek et al’s 2015 paper. The event was very […]
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